submitted by Karen
Having young children while starting a company is generally considered to be at best unadvisable; at worst, a mark of true gluttony for punishment. So perhaps it says something about our not-yet-3-year-old company that we have 3 staff members and 3 Keen Babies under the age of 3. Martin’s son Marius, now 9 [...]

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Submitted by Catharine
Start-ups should be nicknamed “Sprint-Ups” because, like most other emerging companies, we find ourselves working super hard in sprints that end up feeling like a marathon.
I’m starting to notice that our Twitter & Blog activity is sparse when we’re busily working towards a goal / deadline. So seeing that we’d gone two weeks [...]

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submitted by Catharine
At Keen, we talk a lot about our distribution channel being on the iPhone, but it’s only our first test application. We are quickly moving towards getting as many people as possible onto our mobile distribution platform. The Google Android Operating System is gaining a lot of traction, and starting to offer significant [...]

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submitted by Catharine
I recently took notice to an article I found on Twitter: “Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should be Worried.” This article addresses the recent rise of companies that produce and create hundreds of bits of content per day. Sure, I’d love for Keen Guides to be able to do that, but [...]

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submitted by Catharine
Google has yet again, impressed us with their developments. You guys rock, really. I love your mission: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” It’s so simple yet it packs a lot. It gave me great joy to sit among representatives from national Deaf and Hard of Hearing [...]

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